Nazli Aydin

Associate Professor

I am an Associate Professor in the Systems Engineering section of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management. Additionally, I am a member of the 4TU-Resilience Engineering Desire program. I am currently leading a research community focused on urban research and contributing to the management team for the "TPM Resilience Lab". My primary research interests involve measuring and quantifying the resilience of urban and critical infrastructure in the built environment, utilizing geospatial data science and network science. I am particularly interested in spatially explicit resilience characterization, developing methods for evaluating the (co)benefits or trade-offs of implementing climate adaptation and resilience intervention strategies at spatial and temporal scales, and long-term recovery and resilience building after large-scale disasters.

I am also involved in the Horizon-Europe project, AGILE, which is committed to developing a comprehensive methodological framework and tools for managing HILP events from a systemic risk and resilience perspective. My responsibilities in the project include identifying HILP events, developing a library of HILP events, and creating a stress testing methodology for critical infrastructure systems.

Currently, I am supervising PhD students in the fields of critical infrastructure resilience against HILPs, urban planning under climate uncertainty, and resilience quantification using data analytics. My past projects include evaluating the resilience of transportation and water networks, creating a framework for modeling recovery using network approaches, and designing interactive spatial decision support for the long-term transformation of water networks.